Archive for January 7, 2020

Pots and puns

Edward FitzGerald’s translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat includes several verses making an analogy between clay pots and humans, and between the Potter and God. In a note, FitzGerald adds: This Relation of Pot and Potter to Man and his Maker figures far and wide in the Literature of the World, from the time of the […]